EMMA (Lantern): Philly falls for Austenmania
Over the past few years, there’s been a surprising and unlikely spark of interest in Jane Austen. Austen’s novels—Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Persuasion, et al—have…
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The Best of the 2013 Philly Fringe Festival
Phindie‘s recent Critics’ Awards proved very popular. These awards used input from theater reviewers across town to compile a list of the best performers of…
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THE RAINMAKER (People’s Light): The Promise of Hope in Times of Hardship
People’s Light & Theatre Company has enjoyed success with its past offerings of masterworks about life in America in the first half of the 20th…
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[78] STUDY HALL (Philly Improv Theater): Fringe review
The conceit of Philly Improv Theater’s STUDY HALL is that we the audience are a bunch of prep school students, awaiting a lecture in an…
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[77] BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL (Life Theater Company): Fringe review
Weekly World News is known for a lot of things, but heartfelt sentiment isn’t one of them. Surprising, then, that the tabloid birthed BAT BOY:…
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[76] BASTARD PIECE (No Face Performance Group): Fringe review
You are in a spacey kind of facility thing. It’s all white in there, with some technological lookin’ kinda lights. There are three doors; soon,…
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[75] REGGIE’S BRODIE: A VAUDEVILLE EXTRAVAGANZA (Cut House Productions): Fringe review
Is your only experience with burlesque the 2010 Christina Aguilera / Cher movie? Never fear: the good people of Cut House Productions are here to…
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[74] BEYOND THE LIGHT (Leila Ghaznavi and Pantea Productions): Fringe review
Beyond the Light is a devised puppetry/theater/music/acrobatics/dance exploring unrequited love through whimsical, nighttime wonderment. A blonde boy and a black-haired girl stand in separate shadows,…
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[73] ROOTS (AKA performance): Fringe review
AKA performance is a new dance collective, formed by young choreographers Katrina Atkin, Ann-Marie Gover, and Alessandra Delle Grotti to showcase their individual approaches to…
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Victor Fiorillo, A Doll’s House, and the role of the reviewer
A review by Victor Fiorillo of EgoPo Classic Theatre’s A Doll’s House got Phindie writer Julius Ferraro contemplating the role of reviewer. This is part of Phindie‘s…
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[72] XY SCHEHERAZADE (Unstuck Theater): Fringe review
XY SCHEHERAZADE works very hard to conjure the moment when “a story that you’re telling a friend becomes, for a minute, a shared perspective.” But…
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[71] STRIPPED OF COMMON SENSE (Joint Bender Productions): Fringe review
“Back to the grind. Literally.” So begins a shift for five young women, dancing for a living. Set in the dressing room of a strip…
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[70] ONE YEAR (MamaCITA Five): Fringe review
Anyone stumbling into ONE YEAR by accident, like I did, will realize immediately that they had broken in on something transcendent. In front of a backdrop…
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[69] BASEMENT (Gunnar Montana): 2013 Fringe Review
This is the only place where baby doll dismembering, Santa Claus chopping, guts wearing, head smashing, dub-step listening, and wrapping a woman in plastic are…
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[68] EMANCIPATION SWEET, A PLAY WITH MUSIC (Theatre for Transformation): Fringe review
Theatre for Transformation is a Lancaster-based company focused on performing African-American stories for diverse audiences. This active group has toured their original works to over…
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[67] LUCINDA’S BED (Brainspunk Theater): Fringe review
Mia McCullough’s LUCINDA’s BED has a great premise: a monster hiding under a young girl’s bed continues to haunt her into adulthood. The monster (Brendan…
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[56.2] THE TALKBACK (Berserker Residents): Fringe review
You know that scene at the end of The Matrix (spoiler alert) where Neo sees the green code and jumps into Agent Smith’s belly and makes him…
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[66] HATCH (Birds on a Wire Dance Theatre): Fringe review
An exciting new company with a promising future, Birds on a Wire Dance Theatre presents a mini-festival of six short world-premiere performances in HATCH. Led…
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[65] A MYSTERY? (Dragon’s Eye Theatre): Fringe review
Picture the scene: You are a child under ten years old; you meet three other children, each quite young, Brendan (Patrick Lamborn) is a mandolin prodigy…
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[64] MOSES(ES) (Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group): Fringe Review
They are some of the oldest and most widely known stories in the books. They are stories of migrations, grueling journeys, and burning destinies. They are about…
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